My lovely listmates~ I am now 18 and officially DONE with high school for good. It's an odd feeling - to be in educational limbo/freefall, as I have been brainwashed by 13 years in a tiny school to feel that my whole schooling process would be completely out of my hands. Now I have 3 months to read an entire list of 'required reading' and somehow gear myself for real college. Gonna die. For my birthday I got an Underwood! I real Underwood - 50s vintage, in perfect working order. I feel like Kerouac. Am dying to go do Kerouacian things in order to have something to write about... although I haven't quite told my parents about that one yet :P. I wanted a corset, but that just didn't materialize... I was quite angry, although I don't understand why it's such a horrendously strange request. I have always had a passion for Merchant-Ivory productions, and I already own a velvet cape, so I figured it would be a natural progression. Guess not. Figgers. It's funny when you know a song or a CD so well that you can sing every word and hum every chord progression and instrument part, and then you go back and read, actually read the lyrics. The whole meaning (gut-level) can change when you sing along versus just read the lyrics. The words are still the same, but something changes in your grasping of them. Coming from an inveterate car singer... I can enjoy the same CD at least 2 different ways, and gain completely different things from each way. Or am I just an idiot? I'm counting down the days until "Storytelling"... and am horribly torn up as whether to download as much as I can before I buy it (bright and early June 4) or just wait and hear the whole thing new and sparkly. Any way, I am biding my time listening to the Shins' "Oh, Inverted World" - god this group is yummy. I just keep surprising myself as to how much I love them. Boys doing pretty things on acoustic guitars and Casio keyboards... can a dreamy girl ask for more? Well, this has been epic, so I'd better shut up. happy day~ Ann "There's too much caffeine in your bloodstream... and a lack of real spice in your life" The Smiths _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+